- These functions are described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4.
-
- The ncurses library obeys the XPG4 standard and the historical practice
- of the AT&T curses implementations, in that the echo bit is cleared
- when curses initializes the terminal state. BSD curses differed from
- this slightly; it left the echo bit on at initialization, but the BSD
- <STRONG>raw</STRONG> call turned it off as a side-effect. For best portability, set
- <STRONG>echo</STRONG> or <STRONG>noecho</STRONG> explicitly just after initialization, even if your pro-
- gram remains in cooked mode.
-
- The XSI Curses standard is ambiguous on the question of whether <STRONG>raw</STRONG>
- should disable the CRLF translations controlled by <STRONG>nl</STRONG> and <STRONG>nonl</STRONG>. BSD
- curses did turn off these translations; AT&T curses (at least as late
- as SVr1) did not. We chose to do so, on the theory that a programmer
- requesting raw input wants a clean (ideally 8-bit clean) connection
+ Except as noted in the section on extensions, these functions are
+ described in the XSI Curses standard, Issue 4.
+
+ The <EM>ncurses</EM> library obeys the XPG4 standard and the historical practice
+ of the AT&T <EM>curses</EM> implementations, in that the echo bit is cleared
+ when <EM>curses</EM> initializes the terminal state. BSD <EM>curses</EM> differed from
+ this slightly; it left the echo bit on at initialization, but the BSD
+ <STRONG>raw</STRONG> call turned it off as a side-effect. For best portability, set
+ <STRONG>echo</STRONG> or <STRONG>noecho</STRONG> explicitly just after initialization, even if your
+ program remains in cooked mode.
+
+ The XSI Curses standard is ambiguous on the question of whether <STRONG>raw</STRONG>
+ should disable the CRLF translations controlled by <STRONG>nl</STRONG> and <STRONG>nonl</STRONG>. BSD
+ <EM>curses</EM> did turn off these translations; AT&T <EM>curses</EM> (at least as late
+ as SVr1) did not. We chose to do so, on the theory that a programmer
+ requesting raw input wants a clean (ideally 8-bit clean) connection